parenting
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High on Queen Anne Road (Cerberus)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 970 why are you the poet you are the poet consequence of shit in love with the marauder heracles slept in his crate hera summoned snakes the snakes moved without reason heracles strangled the snakes one by one by one
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The Artists’ Head Strung from The Artist’s Head
Wikipedia Poem, No. 885 drop anything my brown kitchen stand falligators quarries airfields swamps post-industrial towns no weather here deep withering made-thing in beautiful or dissociated harmony frying up the stuff and father we make we sort we tell stories you’ll see you said what i don’t call those i read of you here i…
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Empedocles and Exaenetus (Wikipoem for My Father)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 824 yr head if only he cared down their hooves spectacular the riders’ blood spilled as much for me but i was a wrestler and was a wrestler and was a farce another wrapped around their hooves spectacular the riderstand was a wrestler and was a farce vested spectacular the great heft…
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Kneel 1
Wikipedia Poem, No. 770 no shy realization through the night being abandoned my father precious dark expanses i had not before actually it was guilty answers i was the guilty answer i was guilty at being away for confident hours every precious day turning away it was guilt before actually it was guilty answers i…
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How to Raise a Premodern Family
Wikipedia Poem, No. 743 disappear into a cloud of those big slick cartoon bombs pair me with the twin cities or cuyamungué flint or kalamazoo or something coal blackboard anime avocado cowboy self-doubt gender cowboy hunger sound of hunger to the best of your recollection how fast was the joke? a revolution? an iphone?…
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Why Phonic Multiplication Is the Work of Trillionaires (Return to the Flower)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 723 On an oedipal level, what a feeling! Thrilled little clouds in the supermarket: No, I want that. Was it in the supermarket? No, I want that in the car and still make the wrong-colored little clouds. In the supermarket I don’t care, maybe making thrilled little clouds to whom or I…
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Portrait of John Berryman
Wikipedia Poem, No. 645 so do i am exhausted in the end of our minds this instead of our minds this instead of our minds instead of our minds this the end of a heavy cold the end minding the cold speaker and spoken to our annual knowing being offered up to us i have…
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Abraham Lincoln, in 1824, Tries on Women’s Clothing and No One Bats a Lash
Wikipedia Poem, No. 616 gray to wear lipstick his mouth he ate breakfast before lincoln wanted to like to wear lipstick his mother wore lincoln wanted to wish away war lincoln wanted to like his mother school her wear her caring peach lincoln wanted his mouth to mother his mouth he watched her thin serious…
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Hungry Science Fiction Poem
Wikipedia Poem, No. 608 they will open into their relationship sons and crafts projects of home again in the phaedo alone electro-paternal modeling play-doh flour water salt boric acid mineral oil lovers to him fathered him in terms of toys and taste a gift begat from identity projected paternal compound retail groups account of the…
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Family Happiness (Nondidactic)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 572 they move today as was written hold that sound against one of they move today dog hyper-aware and read by complex formations me she or has gone they move today perspicuous improvisational solo explain more clearly they move today it is being written hold it against one’s patience they move today…
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